[Python-Dev] zlib module build failure on Mac OSX 10.4.7

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jul 1, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>
> On Jul 1, 2006, at 6:57 PM, skip at pobox.com wrote:
>
>>
>>     Ronald> Are you sure you're building on a 10.4 box?  Both the
>>     Ronald> macosx-10.3 thingy and lack of inflateCopy seem to  
>> indicate that
>>     Ronald> you're running on 10.3.
>>
>> Well, yeah, pretty sure.  Let's see.  The box with the disk says  
>> "Mac OS X
>> Tiger - Version 10.4" on the spine. The "About This Mac" popup says
>> "10.4.7".
>
> That gets the easy solution out of the way ;-)
>
>>   It used to run 10.3 though.  Is there some possibility the update
>> from 10.3 to 10.4 had problems?
>>
>> Note that the compile log on the buildbot 10.4 box also has "10.3"  
>> in its
>> directory names.  If I remember correctly, it came from Apple with  
>> 10.4
>> installed.
>
> /me slaps head.
>
> Having 10.3 in the directory names is intentional, the version in  
> the directory name is the value of MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET, with  
> is defaulted to 10.3 in the configure script.
>
> What  I don't understand yet is why your copy of libz doesn't have  
> inflateCopy. What does /usr/lib/libz.dylib point to on your system?  
> On my 10.4 box it is a symlink that points to libz.1.2.3.dylib and  
> there is an older version of libz (libz.1.1.3.dylib) in /usr/lib as  
> well.

Maybe Skip didn't upgrade to the latest version of Xcode? Perhaps  
he's still got an old SDK?

-bob